Archive CD Books Census Projects on CD: "In other words: narrow down your searches in the census to an address or area wherever possible.
This is real primary data
Note that the CDs contain images of the actual pages of the census enumerators' books. Real original primary research data. (Not transcriptions in text format). What you see is the original hand written documents. That does involve you reading the pages rather than typing in a name and expecting the computer to find it. However, you will very quickly become used to the handwriting styles of the different enumerators, and it is easy to click through the pages at even low magnification to spot the people you are looking for.
Hint: If it is difficult to read an enumerator's handwriting, or the way that he forms letters, look around the same (or adjacent) page for identifiable words containing those same letters. It works. "
This is real primary data
Note that the CDs contain images of the actual pages of the census enumerators' books. Real original primary research data. (Not transcriptions in text format). What you see is the original hand written documents. That does involve you reading the pages rather than typing in a name and expecting the computer to find it. However, you will very quickly become used to the handwriting styles of the different enumerators, and it is easy to click through the pages at even low magnification to spot the people you are looking for.
Hint: If it is difficult to read an enumerator's handwriting, or the way that he forms letters, look around the same (or adjacent) page for identifiable words containing those same letters. It works. "
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